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March 28, 2012 - 9:19am
from e-MFP news
The VI Central American and Caribbean Microfinance Conference will take place 5 - 7 September 2012 at the Hotel Riu Plaza, Panama City, Panama. The theme of this year's event is "Microfinance: Growing with inclusion."
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March 13, 2012 - 9:12pm
from Main Street Microfinance
Aurora Gilbert and I, both ACCION USA interns and Columbia University students, spent part of winter break in Panama with
Torti Abajo Savings and Loan Cooperative
Global Brigades, a global health and sustainable development organization that offers nine skill-based volunteer programs to improve quality of life in under-resourced communities.
We traveled with the Columbia Business Brigade to a rural town called Torti Abajo, where community ...
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March 13, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
In its first year of commercial operation, which ended September 2011, Corporacion para las Microfinanzas Puerto Rico (PR), a microfinance institution created and owned by the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, granted USD 2.1 million to entrepreneurs on the island of Puerto Rico [1]. BBVA Microfinance Foundation supports eight microfinance institutions in the Americas and has assets of USD 941 million as of December 2011 [2]. BBVA Microfinance Foundation is an arm of the BBVA Group, a ...
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February 14, 2012 - 2:14am
from MicroCapital
The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA in Spanish), a Mexico-based association of Latin American central banks; the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the US-based Inter-American Development Bank; and the World Bank recently launched Envía Centro America, a free online tool that allows users to compare the cost and speed of sending remittances from the United States to seven Latin American countries, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, ...
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February 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
from MicroCapital
By the Economist Intelligence Unit, funded by The Multilateral Investment Fund, Corporación Andina de Fomento and the International Finance Corporation, October 2011, 72 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36453519.
This paper examines the microfinance business environments in 55 countries, ...
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February 3, 2012 - 3:04pm
from RemittancesGateway
CEMLA, MIF/IDB and World Bank Launch enviacentroamerica.org To Make Costs and Conditions of Remittances More Transparent
The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA, for its initials in Spanish), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of Inter-American Development Bank ...
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February 3, 2012 - 3:04pm
from RemittancesGateway
CEMLA, MIF/IDB and World Bank Launch enviacentroamerica.org To Make Costs and Conditions of Remittances More Transparent
The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA, for its initials in Spanish), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of Inter-American Development Bank ...
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January 26, 2012 - 10:12pm
from MicroCapital
Rural Impulse Fund II, which is managed by Belgium’s Incofin Investment Management, and Triple Jump’s ASN-Novib Microkredietfonds, have acquired an equity stake in Azercredit, an Azerbaijani microfinance institution (MFI) with a rural focus. While the amounts paid and the sizes taken have not been made public, Incofin IM and Triple Jump will have seats in Azercredit’s board of directors.
Azercredit was initially created in 1996 as a program of World Vision, a US-based worldwide ...
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January 24, 2012 - 6:18pm
from MicroCapital
FINCA Zambia Limited, a Zambian microfinance institution (MFI) affiliated with US-based nonprofit FINCA International, plans to reduce its effective lending rates in 2012 by 20 percent after having experienced a repayment rate of 97 percent during the 2011 fiscal period. FINCA Zambia has begun calculating interest charges based on the declining balance of clients’ loans, replacing a “flat” interest rate policy whereby clients pay interest on the full loan amount throughout the loan ...
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August 26, 2011 - 1:33pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has agreed to provide long-term debt financing of seven years worth USD 50 million to Panamanian commercial lender Banco General, to increase the bank’s mortgage lending program for low-income households. According to Lars Thunell, executive vice president and CEO of IFC, the funding will be deployed to expand the scope of affordable housing, with a focus on those families “whose annual ...
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August 5, 2011 - 2:23pm
from MicroCapital
Fundación BBVA Microfinanzas (BBVA Microfinance Foundation), a Spanish nonprofit organization that supports a network of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America, is expanding its operations in the Chilean market by rebranding MFI Servicios Microfinancieros Credicoop SA as Emprende Microfinanzas. Credicoop was established in 1986 as a cooperative, and starting in 2009 was affiliated with an entity known as Servicios Microfinancieros. Emprende Microfinanzas expects to triple its ...
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June 27, 2011 - 10:19am
from Google news - microfinance
CAF organizes conference to promote Microfinance in PanamaMicrofinance FocusMicrofinance Focus June 27, 2011: Development bank in Latin America CAF, recently organized the Fourth CAF Microfinance Forum under the question: The end of the "golden ...
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June 27, 2011 - 8:59am
from Microfinance Focus
Development bank in Latin America CAF, recently organized the Fourth CAF Microfinance Forum under the question: The end of the "golden years" of microfinance? in Panama City. The aim of the conference was to promote strengthening of microfinance in the region.
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